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Foolish, Finite Creatures by thistlethread
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
27 May 2026
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He doesn't know how he's not dead. He doesn't know who these people are or why they claim to want to help him. He's still covered in blood, he can feel it in his lungs and he doesn't know he doesn't know he doesn't know—
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A man covered in blood appears on Hail Mary, and Grace must help him. There is no choice. Even if looking at the stranger fills him with an overwhelming sense of dread.
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Everything goes blank. No, not blank, not emptied either but rather…quiet. White noise that had faded into the background of the crashing wave that was heading straight for Draco, that all the years he had been left along with his own thoughts, wandering the vast halls of the Manor, and then Hogwarts, and for a very brief time, the damp bricks in Azkaban, he still had managed to completely miss the point.
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Draco realising in real-time how disastrously in love he is with Ron Weasley after sleeping with him for the last three years.
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Every 10 years something magical happens on the edge of the forbidden forest. When the veil is thinnest on Samhain night The Whomping Willow is transformed and so is a very familiar car.
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A slice of Pansy Parkinson’s life in which to make sure Hermione has the best Christmas ever, Pansy ends up having to enlist the help of Harry Potter to make the perfect pavlova.
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Harry accidentally Pavlov’s Pansy with pavlova.
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It was meant to be the perfect holiday, a retreat packed with lounging by pools, bouts of existential crisis and if she was really lucky, a meaningless fling she’d never have to see again.
But some things aren’t meant to be. And others are.
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A Quirkless Boy’s Guide to Loving Dynamight by xlyks
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 May 2026
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When Katsuki’s sex tape leaks, Izuku can’t stop thinking about it (or the guy Katsuki’s suddenly spending time with.) Tall, awkward, and way too close for Izuku’s liking, the bastard has him feeling things he really doesn’t want to fucking deal with.
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08 Apr 2026
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I am obsessed and deeply unwell and urge everyone to read this piece of pure angst and pining bakudeku 😭😭😭
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Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy are cursed. Probably. Maybe.
All Hermione knows for certain is that he keeps sticking his pointy nose and other body parts where they aren't welcome: like into her dating life, and under her skin, literally.
Meanwhile, all Draco knows for certain is that in all his fantasies of getting into her knickers, he never imagined it happening like that.
A twist of fate, a statistical anomaly, or a sex curse: whatever the cause, there's (probably) just one solution.
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(In which Hermione and Draco Apparate into one another, repeatedly.)
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Bookmarked by thistlethread
16 Mar 2025
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reading this is similar to what I imagine it feels like to see at Van Gogh's Starry Night.
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A self-indulgent romp where Draco delivers the baby of his pregnant coworker in a cave.
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In which Hermione Granger is strong enough, intelligent enough, and brave enough to birth a child on her own, but it doesn’t mean she has to.
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With the help of a few…friends…our favourite grumpy Slytherin is forced to endure the rather intolerable experience of joy.
Happy ending in all iterations of all universes for these particular two, because we deserve it!
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- Part 1 of Cave, [Redacted] and Epilogue
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Bookmarked by thistlethread
03 Sep 2024
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you ever read something, and go "oh this seems really fun" and it is, but you also get your heart super-saiyan'd into space? this fic does that.
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Those who abolished the Statute of Secrecy in 1945 never intended the horrors that came afterwards.
By 1998, Wizarding Britain—styled after a reborn Roman Empire with Imperator Voldemort at its helm—controls most of Europe. Resistance is brutally crushed, muggles are in chains, and muggleborns are martyred by dragon fire in front of screaming crowds.
Hermione Granger is a domestic slave working in the Malfoy household, dreaming of a remade world, and hiding magic in her veins. Discovery means certain death.
Draco Malfoy, a tribune and spy for the Imperial Legion, carries the weight of painful secrets. For years, the only way to live with his dark reality has been to shut his eyes to it.
…But she has a burning star inside her—the light of an entire sun…
And now he is caught between the denial which defines his survival, and the woman he cannot deny.
Trailer for The Lights That Burn by the immensely talented thistlethread
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Bookmarked by thistlethread
03 Sep 2024
Bookmarker's Notes
this, this is how you do an AU. truly the most insane and fantastic wolrd building, characters and *screams into pillow*
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“I feel like—a meteor crashed into my house and I’m the only one who can see it. I feel like a sketch on a piece of parchment instead of a real person. I feel like I will curse the next person who tells me to ‘just enjoy it’.”
Hermione never thought she would be a solo parent. No one told her that it would be boring, and devastating, and that she would be filled with so much joy that she might burst any second.
No one told Draco he'd feel the same way.
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Bookmarked by thistlethread
28 Apr 2024
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the most tender and guttural piece of art